Nonapparent closing means for linen



July 26, 1955 s. YEBOLES 2,713,634

NON APPARENT CLOSING MEANS FOR LINEN Filed Dec. 6, 1951 United States Patent 0 NQNAPPARENT CLOSING MEANS FQR LINEN Saturnino Yeboles, Toulouse, France Application December 6, 1951, Serial No. 260,263

Claims priority, application France January 24, 1951 1 Claim, (Cl. 2-116) My invention has for its object nonapparent closing means for linen requiring no buttons or buttonholes, chiefly for shirts and blouses, said arrangement being constituted by a thin slightly incurved removable plate bestowed with a sufficient yieldingness and the exact shape of which is disclosed hereinafter; half of said plate is fitted 1 into a correspondingly shaped pocket provided on the inside of the portion of the garment overlapping another portion for closing said garment, the actual closing being obtained through the introduction of the free end of the plate inside a second pocket matching strictly its outline and provided on the outer surface of the portion of a garment covered by the first mentioned portion, the lips of the two pockets referred to being brought into register and held in such register by means of the above mentioned plate.

It should be reminded that the closing of the shirt collars by means of a button and a buttonhole shows serious drawbacks both for the maker and for the user, the former being constrained in the mounting of the collar to provide a very accurate cut of the outline of the collar while the ironing is a tedious operation to be executed with much care. The presence of buttons is also very objectionable for this latter operation and the user meets often with difliculties when buttoning a tightly fitted collar. Lastly, the wear of the buttonhole leads often in the use of the shirt to a most inaesthetic widening of the gap between the opposite ends of the collar.

I have illustrated by way of example in accompanying drawing a preferred embodiment of my invention. In said drawing:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the connecting plate according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the open collar of a shirt incorporating my improved closing means.

Lastly Fig. 3 illustrates diagrammatically the position of the plate inside the closed collar.

In Fig. 1, the plate 1 made of a sufficiently yielding and light plastic material is shown as having a specially designed outline defining two separate parts to either side of an imaginary vertical line A-A, the first part forms the nose la. corresponding to the shape of a pocket 2a secured to the end 3a of the inner strip 3 through which the collar 4 is secured to the shirt, said end 3a of the inner strip 3 of the collar 4 being intended at the closing of said collar to be covered by the cooperating end 3b of the inner strip 3-, said end 3b is provided on its inner surface with a second pocket 2b matching exactly the shape of the sec ond nose 1b of the plate; said nose 1b engaging the pocket 2b, the edge 5b of said pocket 2b will register with the line A-A of the plate while the nose 1a projects com- 2,713,634 Patented July 26, 1955 pletely outside the pocket when the collar is open, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

it is readily apparent that an instantaneous closing of the collar may be executed by the wearer by holding the end 3b of the strip 3 at the base of the collar over the other end 3a of the strip while introducing the projecting nose 1a of the plate into the pocket 2a so as to bring into register the edges 5a and 5b of the collar strip as illustrated in Fig. 3 wherein, for sake of clarity of the drawing, the actual collar 4 has not been illustrated.

The collar is thus held in its closed position in a perfect manner by reason of the presence of the plate 1 that bestows a more rigid behaviour to said collar and prevents its collapsing, even in the case of a person with a very short neck, while opposing efliciently any widening of the gap separating the tips of the collar as originally provided, and also any crumpling of the shirt or of the collar at the moment of the closing or opening of said collar by reason of the exceedingly simple and easy operation allowed in this case. The removable plate allows furthermore an easier washing and ironing and, lastly, the wearer is no longer hindered by the bones in the case of a starched collar.

The arrangement disclosed hereinabove provides also numerous advantages for the shirt manufacturer by reason of its cutting out in particular the necessity of lowering the opening required for the insertion of the collar and of its making the ironing of the collar easier. It provides also a perfect regularity in the appearance of the shirt when on sale and cuts out the necessity of using a collar protector as it holds the upper front part of the shirt in a clearly stretched condition.

My invention is obviously not limited to the above dis closed embodiment and my improved garment closing means may be modified to a considerable extent within the scope of the accompanying claim.

What I claim is:

In combination with a shirt or the like collar having cooperating overlapping front ends, an arrangement for the detachable connection of the cooperating overlapping front ends of the collar comprising two pockets extending respectively on the inner side of the front end which is to lie above the other front end and on the outer side of the said other front end, each pocket opening in a direction opposed to the free end of the corresponding collar end, the extent of overlapping of the collar ends when closed being such that the openings of the two pockets face each other, at least one of the pockets assuming a shape tapering inwardly with reference to its opening, and a flat plate of plastic material inserted in the two pockets, the outline of the plate matching the inner outlines of the corresponding pockets, the outer edges of the pocket openings lying in substantial register when the collar is closed.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,638,073 Van Heusen Aug. 9, 1927 1,771,101 Rubinstein July 22, 1930 1,960,165 Ottinger May 22, 1934 2,294,617 Horwitz Sept. 1, 1942 2,434,233 Spearrin Ian. 6, 1948 2,451,300 Neal Oct. 12, 1948 

